An update on the general rules of the game.

[Jewish Ninja]

[Grounded]

[Steve]

Three words fix HPA systems: Real. Capacity. Magazines.

Just saying, is all.

[Nark]

[toobladink]

Well, here are some rules for the field I work with, if you're interested. We would like to have snipers go highr, but field insurance does not allow it.

If you set a restriction for rate of fire for HPA, you can BET that I will show up to a game with an electric gun shooting 60 RPS. And I won't be the only one.

25 RPS is a good limit, but 30 is probably best. I say this because a lot of people will just buy an SHS high speed motor and an 11.1, have no idea how fast their gun shoots, and then be told they can't use it because the ROF is too high.

Also, measuring RPS adds a lot of time to chrono.

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[drpepper475]

just chrono hpa with joules not fps. Also use .32 bbs. my 2 cents.

[Hawkeye [F.O.A.D.]]

All HPA guns did is bring to light joule creep. something that can be done with any gun if you know how. Chronoing with higher weight bbs (.30+) for the most part eliminates that issue.

[Nark]

[toobladink]

[Steve]

I chased obscenely high ROF in CQB AEGs. But I also kept my velocity target at 330 FPS or lower. For me, I wasn't looking to bleed somebody out or make people cry. I mostly wanted enough pellets in the air that I could legitimately advance behind ballistic cover. And, occasionally, point out when people were egregiously not calling their hits.

The thing that sorta kills HPA for me is that it's too paintball. I liked that the platforms were incredibly similar to actual firearms, that I could use my real-steel tactical gear, and in most instances, use the same tactics and skillset that I'd developed in the Army. Hoses and spare tanks and the rest of that nonsense just kills it for me. On top of that, most of the kids I ran into that ran HPA systems were looking for shortcuts. Higher ROF, higher velocity, bigger air tanks. And that "looking for shortcuts" mentality _felt like_ it transferred over into their game play.

I don't know that they were any less likely to call their hits, or more likely to repeatedly rope people, or just generally act more like jerks than anyone else. I do know that it stuck out in my mind more when I saw it happen. And, to my discredit, and on multiple occasions, I'm positive that once I observed bad faith behavior on the part of an HPA user I would spend the rest of the day actively looking for chances to light them up like a Christmas tree rather than finding a polite and appropriate way to try to correct the issues I had observed.

[Grounded]

Great info and well said!

[Solid]

Here ya go, OP Fury Road, October 2016. First one me, second one is the scar the burst he hit me with (taken today,) third is the rear windshield. Burst hit up the side of the truck and I was lucky enough to get my face down quick enough to keep my teeth. Shot at me from I dunno, 50 feet away, corner of the very most back left building in the MOUT town at Rilea from the perspective of the parking lot at us in the middle of the road. Shits real.

https://m.imgur.com/a/t4Xsj

[Grounded]

Whoa dude! Scattered!

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